The band Goodnight, Sunrise clearly has trust issues. Demonstrated by the band's newest music video made for their song ‘Liar Liar’. This is perhaps one of the more fun venting processes that have ever been filmed and put to music. Three members of the band play their roles perfectly, and they happen to have enlisted a particularly perfect range eclectic people to make up their tumultuous party mass. The video is the story of a cacophonous birthday party, filled with hedonism, lechery, passive aggressive nihilism, humiliation and a crazy dance party with varying amounts of participants. Don’t worry it’s all somehow amounts to a great time. Not to mention that all the members of Goodnight, Sunrise clearly had an amazing time making this video, plus they got to have a cake that said their band name on it and who doesn't love that. The video smacks of effort when you realize how many different takes and maybe even cakes might have been necessary to create the variety seen within the high-speed cuts of this full-fledged ‘party’ video. The first line of ‘Liar Liar’ describes the video perfectly, “I’ve got a bad bad feeling, that you’re messing with my head”. Additionally, the sequence of the cake being cut up is a perfect party metaphor; the first piece is cut perfectly and then more and more imperfections abound as each piece is cut as the speed of the video increases until people simply start grabbing fistfuls of cake. A couple of highlights in the video are when the lead singer Vanessa Vakharia viciously destroys a piñata version of her keytar in glorious effigy (2:21). Another hilarious plot point is when drummer Paul Weaver spikes the punch to ‘lubricate’ the situation and still gets rejected by some girl. Then enter guitarist David Kochberg who drinks it all and negligently dissolves into a hilarious drunken mess. Oh, and also the shot of four party guests basically salivating while playing Hungry Hungry Hippos is inspired (2:10). Paul Weaver actually played my favorite character, especially when Vanessa piles a mountain of carefully organized presents on him and then he throws them all in a closet (1:03), also when he leaves his flask in the punch bowl (1:25). My only complaint is that this video has such quick cuts and simultaneous shots that you simply have to watch it twice, wait that’s not a complaint, that is a good idea. ‘Liar Liar’ itself is a grippingly tight piece of deadpan indie pop. Goodnight, Sunrise is laden with catchy, screeching guitar riffs, stadium style drumming and a keytar with a tone somewhere between The Black Keys and Little Foot Long Foot. They actually describe themselves as “a birthday party in a band”, so I see no thematic links to this video. Take it from me, the music of Goodnight, Sunrise is much more fun than that particular party. Did your brain just explode? Watch this video and then do it again, you will get it.